New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-02-20
TIE THEATRES.
GOSSIP OF THE WEEK.

and perbsps some other old comedy re rivals whch
during the run of Harbor Lights will be presented
at the special mances With the Grand Opera House
engagement the company dsbands Tor the season. and
will not as rumor has had it, 10 san Francisco for
| n fonr weeks season. Through Charles Frohmans
| mediation Mr. WalIack. just before he started for
Florida. made on arrangement with Irving Bishop, the
mind reader. by the terms OF this engagement Mr.
Bishop will appear a week from tonight. have rot
began TO perform my more diilcult leafs, SAID the
yonp man YESTERDAY =" and OF there many
peOple who certain extent can initiate my simpler
experiments He proposes to repeat the test to which
he subjected in i}oston, when pm was hidden by
a committee i'll remote quarter OF the city ana he was
driven with bandagcd eyes in search OF It, While he IL
absent from the theatre next Sunday night searching
for this pin the audience will be entertained by
cert and rccitatons by well known people
Once more does the mythical new uptown theatre
creep into theatrical gossip. This time it is to be ms
far uptown Fiitynnhst., just opposite the ill
fatcd Central Park Garden. and the reputcd controller
OF its cloudy future prospects is Colonel Sim. OF tho
BROOKLYN Park Theatre II Is sa'd that II built II is to
be run as sort of summer theatre Colonel Snn after
having made fortune out OF Robert Buchannns" Alone
in London" III which his wife. Miss Cora Tanner. lays
the principal part is max arrangements for the
placing OF Mr. Buchanans new plays, Fascination
and The Ilue Bells of Scotland" The former piece
IL being considered by Mr.. Npllnck aud Mr. Field. OF
the Boston Museum, and will probably BE- seen next
season at one or other OF these houses Writing OF
success will never write another play"
Richard Mansfield has pleasantly disappointed many
of disaster when he left New-York to travel
star After Mansfclds sudden requirement OF reputa-
ton from HIS performance OF Baron Choyria y IN \
Partisan Romance" he accused of various unpeas-
ant traits of character and chiefly he was accused OF
that mysterious disease slangily known the a" big
head" 1t said when lac started out that one by
one his company would all leave hun bnt with one
unimporiani exception he brings back the people
who left Ncw-York with him. On Christmas Day the
company gave him handsome clock, and In other
ways have testified their good feeling. On his side he
has To
Thinking that OF the actresses was underpaid he
added, without saying word, a comfortable sum to
her weekly salary-a fact she only discovered when
she opened her envelope on saaIy-day. Though sew
eral of the company have been laid up by sickness no
deduction has been made from their salaries The
engagement which Mr.. Mansfield begins tomorrow
night at the Union Square will present Prince Kari
to the liberation OF those who did not have chance
to l. last summer He has made arrangements with
~ III. Palmer tor q summer season at the Mhdison
Square Theatre to begin when NJ! lalmcrs own com
pany leaves town II is then that he will introduce 70
a Ncw.York audience his dramatHaton OF DR.. Jekyl
his ;no completely until May. 1883. having arranged
TO play in twelve OF the principal cities
Nothing definite has yet been heard from Charles
Overton VINO Is In England arranging Tor tho prOduc
ton In London of /" Held by the Enemy" IA he re
ceivcd, however, before sailing, telegram from VII
son Barrett making him favorable proposition, the
chances that Mr.. Gettcs play will be seen at the
Prinoess's Theatre prior 10 the appearance there IN
,Jnly of Miss Hawthorne As eoon he has definitely
TO arrange the production Mr. Teal IA constantly ON
ploycd in preparing plays Tor production by various
companies aud stars The chiet trouble In this coun
tryn he said the other day. and the cause OF many
failures is the haste with which plays produced
Many OF NJ sardon's plays have been almost written
st rehearsal. but then ho hnds managers glad to dc
vote three months TO the preparation OF comedy and
and actresses glad TO devote that time TO re-
hcarsng. IL IL OILY by this constant rchcarrna that
really fine work can be- done. One often hears OF IA
play being rehearscd in two Eeeks and being success
full Take my word Tor IL that In such cases an expert
rsn
artistic detail
1t is Mr.. stctsons intention to conduct the Fifth
Avenue Theatre next season almost entirely a com.
bnation house His own ventures NJ this theatre dur
ing the present have not been oi encourag
ing nature. The uncertainty ~ to the production OF
RuAdigore prevented Mr.. Stetson Filing the time
altogether satisfactorily and he is determined not 10
be caught again IN q similar fashion Among the en-.
gagoncns already made il one with Wilson Barrett,
who has made up hi- mind TO spend another season N
America IIe will open the Fifth Avenue probably
in October, and II Is possible that ne will bc playing
there while Mr. Irving Is giving Faust at the Star
Theatre Mas CogEan sill also play at the Fifth
Avenue. Next season will probably mark the disinc
grafton OF many small companies, 80 many important
Irving. Wilson Barrett, Booth and Lawrence Barrett
pla, ing together, Mr.: Langtry Mrs. J. H. Potter,
Robson md Crane, ITarbor Lights" Miss Dauyray.
H. q. Gilmorcs great spectacular production and
eral Others OF equal attractiyencss.
+. heron-Allen, the young English hand reader has
been in NcwYork for the past week. having returned
from a most successful visit to Boston. a have had
10 shut mysci up for few days." said he the other
morning, " Tor was getting quite worn out by tho
MANY inequalities shown Ia me- Il don't think any
could have been moro kindly treated than have been
ever since my arrival in America. Major Pond
to settle down In New York for year two, and
the prospect IA certainly allurng one am afraid
however, that soon IA had male arrangements 10
STAY my nOmadic instincts would get the better me.
aud should he on TO Constaninope or the City OF
Mexico place equally remote. However,
! shall remain here IN the East until the end OF
winter and then | shall 90 West. must San
Francisco before / return home. III n European war
breaks out though think such event most niprob.
able. shall have to 90 home at once" Mr. Allen
cordng To Major J. B. Pond, has examined over / 900
hands in Ncw-York alone at S1O apiece so that
pecunary at all events his trip has been successful
one.
The sale for the opening night of Gilbert and Sulli-
vans opera " Ruddigorc,' opened Wednesday
morning at the Fifth Avenue Theatre Within two
hours the house was nearly sold out. The abandon
mont OF the idea of having auction sale Of the seats
and the sudden determination to open tho sale AT once
due the fact thai tho company who are to Ihay
in the opera TO arrive day sooner than was eX.
pected The5 are tho EtruIia which started from
Liverpool sixteen hours earlier than usual and does not
stop at Queenstown. should all 10 well, therefore to-
murrow night will be the opening night and The benefit
OF the Washngtons Birthday matinee thus secured.
However, III order TO secure himself against accidents
Mr. ~ctsOn has had the tickets printed without n date
merely marking them &" first night" second nirnt y
etc. The advance sae has already reached into The
second week OF tue performances.
Miss Dauyray has decided to make no change in the
bin ut the Lyceum Theatre for some time 10 come
This IL due to tho fact thai Masks and Face, b,s
been dong an even larger business during tho week
just ended than at any time since its revival
James C. Duff, who was last week in Baltimore with
his comic opera company, will return to town In few
weeks and sail for Europe at the end OF March Io
will be away about six weeks and sill probably secur.
some operate novelties. The Standard ThcSt,e will
In the mcantme be tcnaned by j. X. Emmett whose
bcplu
Morrissey the business manager OF this theatre ro
ceived letter the other day from Charles Wyndham
whose tour here some years ago Mr. Morrissoy man
AGED. Mr. Wyndham writes that he will ce,tnInIv
come to this country next season II he can mnko anil
able arrang emens as to his own Criterion Theatre in
the way OF finding good tenant Should he come The
chances are that BIO Will DO seen at the Standard
Theatre.
@ Ermlnle Is pnckng the Casino exerv nil. ~.